Built-In Local Marketing Compliance with SOCi Shield

Shield is SOCi’s built-in compliance layer. It’s a digital marketing compliance solution that helps financial services and multi-location businesses reduce risk by enforcing brand and regulatory policies across local search, social, and reputation channels.

Shield delivers real-time compliance enforcement, flagging brand and regulatory issues as users create or edit content and blocking publishing until they resolve concerns.

Yes. Shield applies brand and regulatory policies to all Genius-generated content, so teams will never see any AI-generated content that is off-brand or non-compliant.

Shield can require LinkedIn profile updates to be managed in SOCi, where it checks changes before they go live. It also monitors LinkedIn activity for violations, including comments, messages, and more, and logs all actions for archiving.

Shield is built into the SOCi Platform, so policy checks, alerts, and approvals happen in real time within daily workflows. Unlike legacy tools, Sheild ensures all AI-generated content is compliant by default and its protection spans local pages, social posts and engagements, and review responses, delivering end-to-end local marketing coverage.

Yes. Shield centralizes compliance management with built-in workflows, real-time alerts, and a shared inbox for fast approvals across teams.

Yes. Shield monitors content posted directly to sites like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn, flags violations, and routes them to approvers for review.

Shield helps support compliance with key standards and requirements from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), the SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission), the FHA (Fair Housing Act), and more. It also provides activity logging and integrations with archiving tools, like Smarsh, Proofpoint, and Global Relay.

Shield enforces compliance across SOCi’s full platform, including Search, Social, and Reputation. It protects all AI-generated content, local pages, social posts and engagements, and review responses.

Shield automates compliance across the entire content lifecycle, from real-time policy checks to approvals and archiving. By eliminating manual reviews, reducing back-and-forth between teams, and consolidating tools into one platform, Shield helps brands save time, lower compliance risk, and improve team productivity at scale.

Definitely. Shield is designed to support local compliance and brand safety while giving teams the freedom to create relevant, engaging, and on-brand content.

Yes. Shield supports evolving needs by allowing you to update policies, configure region-specific rules, and enforce them consistently across growing teams and markets. It’s built to scale secure, compliant local marketing as your brand expands.